The other day I posted about a decision for a purchase to make between the following laptop computers... I got alot of great input on the systems mentioned.
A little history... my questions are bellow-
1 ASUS ROG GL552VW-DH74 15-Inch Gaming Laptop, Discrete GPU GeForce GTX 960M 4GB VRAM, 16GB DDR4, 1TB, 128GB SSD (ROG Metallic)
2 Dell Inspiron i7559-5012GRY 15.6 Inch Touchscreen Laptop (6th Generation Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD + 8 GB SSD) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M, Microsoft Signature Edition
3 Alienware AW17R3-1675SLV 17.3-Inch FHD Laptop (6th Generation Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M, Windows 10 Home), Silver
I ended up getting the Alienware model mentioned, mostly becuase the GeForce GTX 970M.. but also the build quality... you can see my previous thread here. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3114592/laptop-buy-versatile-gta.html#xtor=EPR-8809
not only was the build quality a large factor when I was considering this buy but I wanted a disk drive... the Alienware AW17R3-5012GRY doesnt have a disk drive! But no big deal right!? Yup, Bakua was right in persuaduing me to go with the ASUS ROG becuase it does have a disk drive. However, I am a rigger and will DIY anything. So yea, my solution(not saying I couldnt have gotten the ASUS, it was 400 dollars cheaper. Nothing wrong with that. But I wanted the Alienware I guess), 'a SATAWIRE 3.0'. Will it work out of the box? I dont know, but I plan to get it interfacing between my lite-on disk drive to jump that hurtle... I havent even turned the Alienware on yet. But I imagine it should work..
This is the Satawire 3.0 on amazon...
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Even if this thing doesnt work, I am confident I can hack it.... but this is my first Alienware. I cleaned up a hp touchscreen PC once by following a how-to on youtube and make the litle thing run good for a piece ** ****. But I take care of my things.
Question 1 - I want to install a bunch of games, but I dont want to install gTA V twice.l have heard of people having to install and update alienware drviers manually, wtf?. Is there anything I should do before I boot this puppy up. And should I boot her up online, or run windows 10 setup first then bring her online? Will it make a difference or not. I know windows and I have run some unstable systems before and I really dont fell like having to reinstall anything after I boot it up. It took me 92 hours to install windows on my current buiild, I just want a fast PC so any suggstions. I am alreayd preparing myself to have to update the harddisk drives for the 1tb drive as appearntly It comes with outdated drivers that limit its write speed to 150 mbs and I can handle that I believe if I knew how to test the wrote speed, Is there a native application for this in windows or possibly a software available I could get that supports device detection and could run diagnostics for me?
Question two - I recently ruined dell E6400 and have the ram still available from the upgrade I gave it. Can I drop that into the Alienware AW17R3-1675SLV. The ram leftover from my 'thinkpad build' is ddr2 800mhz and the alienware is only pushin 8 gb out of the box(Yes, an obvious downgrade from the ASUS, but the touchpad on the ALienware is much better.) It needs more. Can I put 1 stick of 4 gb ddr2 with the ddr4 2133mhz, I asking this before I boot up because my hope (or at least I am curios to see if) windows takes advantage if it. Maybe a larger paging file. I dont trust that the Alienware, or any of my games will take advantage of the upgrade manually if I install them first. Then I wont have to do that.
Question 3- I want to host my own file server from my home pc to this laptop. Does anyone know any good web service who would provide that service. It is my interpretation of cloud computing.I refuse to use any cloud services at all. But even this laptop isnt as solid as the dell e6400,
Question 4- I want to port over my music and things. But I would like to keep this PC fast. Any idea of a good program that would help me Identify duplicate files(all file types) on my entire PC or home network, so I can clean things up/and get rid of duplicates, I would like to revitilze my storage facilities.
Question 5- Any suggestions for increasing my security on this thing or good port monitoring tools to use with this thing as I travel, basically this will be my main pc for the next year or atleast 6 months. I dropped $1425.00(got it on ale and a promotional $75 discount). I want solid performance. I am getting into C++ and other things. I am willing to take a challenge to get this thing in operator status.
Question 6- Is steam worth it. Will it slow down my pc or run alot of background proccesses. I choose the alienware becuase it could run alot ay one even 4K, I hat bloatware. I want to get steam to get and play day-z.
Other questions(fruit for thought)
I am also willing to take any suggestions from the community.
Should I drop windows 10 and install a pro version of windows 7 64 bit next paycheck?
I plan to do alot on this pc and do you think that windows 10 is worthy, I would like to make a complete disk image fiel for backup once this thing is setup to spec, and advice for that. Would you recommend windows 10 or 7 for that, or would it just be a preference in terms of performance it wouldn't matter? I really want a sexy desktop with the most versatilty because I also use this PC for work. Would a dual boot with windows xp be possible with this thing. I fucked up my dell E6400 trying to reinstall windows and upgrade to 10 with a usb drive, it is just stuck in setup.) Does this happen on OEM versions of windows and can I tell which version it is running to decided if it would be safe to dual boot this thing. If possible I would like it to natively boot 10, XP, 8.1(becauase I have a disc laying around and I do like it, and be capable of booting puppy linux directly into ram(becuase I love editing windows files in linux).
-anyone know a good software for making system images, to boot from. I want to make a recovery disk to boot from with a system image of what it looked like before.
-I am novice in installing windows, so would it be safe to venture into that terrain on a new laptop if I dont completly know the enviornment? Is there anything I can do to bring this bad boy competely offline to windows updates?Is there anything I can do to bring this bad boy competely offline to windows updates?
I would like to disable them so I could install them manually on my own time later.
And last question, is there anyway to program windows to delete files forever(automatically) and return the space to the stack and system immediattely without going to the recycling bin first? I work with C++ and with what I have seen I really like the concept of dynamic memory allocation and I like how it has the memory functions add and delete. It is very neat. I think that computer should upgrade to take advantage of basic system routines. Modern systems are too bloated.
A little history... my questions are bellow-
1 ASUS ROG GL552VW-DH74 15-Inch Gaming Laptop, Discrete GPU GeForce GTX 960M 4GB VRAM, 16GB DDR4, 1TB, 128GB SSD (ROG Metallic)
2 Dell Inspiron i7559-5012GRY 15.6 Inch Touchscreen Laptop (6th Generation Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD + 8 GB SSD) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M, Microsoft Signature Edition
3 Alienware AW17R3-1675SLV 17.3-Inch FHD Laptop (6th Generation Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M, Windows 10 Home), Silver
I ended up getting the Alienware model mentioned, mostly becuase the GeForce GTX 970M.. but also the build quality... you can see my previous thread here. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3114592/laptop-buy-versatile-gta.html#xtor=EPR-8809
not only was the build quality a large factor when I was considering this buy but I wanted a disk drive... the Alienware AW17R3-5012GRY doesnt have a disk drive! But no big deal right!? Yup, Bakua was right in persuaduing me to go with the ASUS ROG becuase it does have a disk drive. However, I am a rigger and will DIY anything. So yea, my solution(not saying I couldnt have gotten the ASUS, it was 400 dollars cheaper. Nothing wrong with that. But I wanted the Alienware I guess), 'a SATAWIRE 3.0'. Will it work out of the box? I dont know, but I plan to get it interfacing between my lite-on disk drive to jump that hurtle... I havent even turned the Alienware on yet. But I imagine it should work..
This is the Satawire 3.0 on amazon...
http://
Even if this thing doesnt work, I am confident I can hack it.... but this is my first Alienware. I cleaned up a hp touchscreen PC once by following a how-to on youtube and make the litle thing run good for a piece ** ****. But I take care of my things.
Question 1 - I want to install a bunch of games, but I dont want to install gTA V twice.l have heard of people having to install and update alienware drviers manually, wtf?. Is there anything I should do before I boot this puppy up. And should I boot her up online, or run windows 10 setup first then bring her online? Will it make a difference or not. I know windows and I have run some unstable systems before and I really dont fell like having to reinstall anything after I boot it up. It took me 92 hours to install windows on my current buiild, I just want a fast PC so any suggstions. I am alreayd preparing myself to have to update the harddisk drives for the 1tb drive as appearntly It comes with outdated drivers that limit its write speed to 150 mbs and I can handle that I believe if I knew how to test the wrote speed, Is there a native application for this in windows or possibly a software available I could get that supports device detection and could run diagnostics for me?
Question two - I recently ruined dell E6400 and have the ram still available from the upgrade I gave it. Can I drop that into the Alienware AW17R3-1675SLV. The ram leftover from my 'thinkpad build' is ddr2 800mhz and the alienware is only pushin 8 gb out of the box(Yes, an obvious downgrade from the ASUS, but the touchpad on the ALienware is much better.) It needs more. Can I put 1 stick of 4 gb ddr2 with the ddr4 2133mhz, I asking this before I boot up because my hope (or at least I am curios to see if) windows takes advantage if it. Maybe a larger paging file. I dont trust that the Alienware, or any of my games will take advantage of the upgrade manually if I install them first. Then I wont have to do that.
Question 3- I want to host my own file server from my home pc to this laptop. Does anyone know any good web service who would provide that service. It is my interpretation of cloud computing.I refuse to use any cloud services at all. But even this laptop isnt as solid as the dell e6400,
Question 4- I want to port over my music and things. But I would like to keep this PC fast. Any idea of a good program that would help me Identify duplicate files(all file types) on my entire PC or home network, so I can clean things up/and get rid of duplicates, I would like to revitilze my storage facilities.
Question 5- Any suggestions for increasing my security on this thing or good port monitoring tools to use with this thing as I travel, basically this will be my main pc for the next year or atleast 6 months. I dropped $1425.00(got it on ale and a promotional $75 discount). I want solid performance. I am getting into C++ and other things. I am willing to take a challenge to get this thing in operator status.
Question 6- Is steam worth it. Will it slow down my pc or run alot of background proccesses. I choose the alienware becuase it could run alot ay one even 4K, I hat bloatware. I want to get steam to get and play day-z.
Other questions(fruit for thought)
I am also willing to take any suggestions from the community.
Should I drop windows 10 and install a pro version of windows 7 64 bit next paycheck?
I plan to do alot on this pc and do you think that windows 10 is worthy, I would like to make a complete disk image fiel for backup once this thing is setup to spec, and advice for that. Would you recommend windows 10 or 7 for that, or would it just be a preference in terms of performance it wouldn't matter? I really want a sexy desktop with the most versatilty because I also use this PC for work. Would a dual boot with windows xp be possible with this thing. I fucked up my dell E6400 trying to reinstall windows and upgrade to 10 with a usb drive, it is just stuck in setup.) Does this happen on OEM versions of windows and can I tell which version it is running to decided if it would be safe to dual boot this thing. If possible I would like it to natively boot 10, XP, 8.1(becauase I have a disc laying around and I do like it, and be capable of booting puppy linux directly into ram(becuase I love editing windows files in linux).
-anyone know a good software for making system images, to boot from. I want to make a recovery disk to boot from with a system image of what it looked like before.
-I am novice in installing windows, so would it be safe to venture into that terrain on a new laptop if I dont completly know the enviornment? Is there anything I can do to bring this bad boy competely offline to windows updates?Is there anything I can do to bring this bad boy competely offline to windows updates?
I would like to disable them so I could install them manually on my own time later.
And last question, is there anyway to program windows to delete files forever(automatically) and return the space to the stack and system immediattely without going to the recycling bin first? I work with C++ and with what I have seen I really like the concept of dynamic memory allocation and I like how it has the memory functions add and delete. It is very neat. I think that computer should upgrade to take advantage of basic system routines. Modern systems are too bloated.